Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

About The Role

Our Compliance team blends regulatory expertise with data‑driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast‑moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to manage conduct risk. We’re looking for a Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager who’ll help us improve our finance and risk management processes to keep customers and the business safe.

• Assisting with the design and implementation of the compliance testing and assurance programme, including risk‑based compliance assessment and control testing
• Completing assurance reviews and testing activities, leveraging skills in advanced data analytics
• Establishing automated queries and dashboards to drive more frequent testing and informative insights
• Contributing to compliance processes by identifying opportunities for improved adherence to regulatory requirements and company standards
• Executing project plans to address remediation efforts and testing review findings, including process updates, documentation, and/or training
• Driving execution of multiple concurrent reviews, which may be local or multi‑jurisdictional, including subsequent management reporting related to review outcomes and findings
• Challenging colleagues to build efficient, world‑class risk management controls and processes
• Using data analytics to identify actionable insights, which result in material enhancements to the control environment

• 5+ years of experience working within a fintech company, traditional financial institution, or regulatory body
• Relevant experience in assurance or internal/external audit, focusing on risk and compliance domains
• Familiarity with assurance/audit reviews
• Experience in controls, risk, and policy and procedure testing
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to hold the 1
  
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• Experience interrogating large data sets to identify actionable insights
• A results‑driven, pragmatic, and detail‑oriented approach
• A love for problem‑solving and working collaboratively
• The ability to explain complex things very easily
• A willingness to learn and an interest in compliance
• Experience creating or utilising test scripts/procedures
• Experience working on regulatory compliance or financial crime risks
• Fluency in English with excellent communication skills

• Knowledge of payment screening, sanction, and PEP regulations
• Experience in inbound and outbound real‑time fraud detection
• Experience in rule‑based or model‑based AML transaction monitoring, threshold tuning, and below‑the‑line testing
• Experience identifying and preventing onboarding risks for retail (KYC) and business (KYB) customers
• Experience in risk assessments or review of FCA regulations and EU AML directives
• Experience with regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and external enquiries
• Experience detecting and investigating internal fraud
• Experience designing, implementing, or testing of customer risk scoring and customer segmentation
• Data analytics skills, including SQL and/or Python
• Experience in insurance, crypto, and/or stock trading compliance

We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard‑working team.